Long time collaborators Gavin Bryars and the Smith Quartet premiere his Fifth String Quartet based on texts by Petrarch with soprano Elsa Torp. This concert includes the groundbreaking Schoenberg String Quartet No.2, Op.10 which includes the moment where Schoenberg enters a new musical realm: one that was to radically alter the course of music in the 20th century.

Smith Quartet
Elsa Torp – Soprano

Schubert – Quartettsatz, D.703
Gavin Bryars – String Quartet No.5 (world premiere)
Schoenberg – String Quartet No.2, Op.10